CVE-2026-74872: Jahlives OpenSSL Encrypt

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

openssl_encrypt versions before 1.4.0 contain an arbitrary code execution vulnerability in the Whirlpool hash implementation that uses broad glob patterns to load .so modules without integrity verification. Attackers can place malicious .so files matching the whirlpool*py313*.so pattern in site-packages directories to achieve native code execution when the module is loaded.

Affected products

• Jahlives OpenSSL Encrypt: before 1.4.0 (fixed in 1.4.0)

Published 2026-08-17. Last modified 2026-10-08.